Warning! Stop Joining MLMs

I joined a Network Marketing company, Amway in the 80's and this is what I learned. I had reached a sales volume of 7500.00 a month. That means that I was receiving checks and paying my team. To maintain that volume I found that I was holding party/demos on a regular basis while maintaining a full time job. My part time job was was eating up my free time and was not paying me enough to go full time.

The problem then is the same as it has always been. Finding The Right People!. Back then there was no internet so I "Showed The Plan" to friends and friends of friends. That was Network Marketing back then. I wanted to make some money and I was spending more in gas and time than it was worth so I stopped.

Then the other day in a forum on Myspace, a woman commented in a blog that YTB had a "Domino Effect" before you get paid. That you have to get people in before you make money? Usually I don't reply to YTB comments, but this was an uneducated attack on the entire industry. An industry that had paid me, although at the time I was too young to understand. Too young to understand that whatever I did to make $2.00, I could do it 500,000 more times to make a Million Dollars! Let me spell it out for you.MLM's ARE NOT A GET MONEY QUICK GIMMICK! They are a BUSINESS and should be treated as such. I know your friends talked you into joining, or you saw the benefits of a product and figured you too could make money selling that product or service. But if you're not making the money you expected, "You're On The Right Path!"

Everyone has heard that 90-95% of business fail within the first year. Do you think MLM's are any different? Well they are, "They Are Worse!" Why? Because they are being sold as Get Rich Easy Gimmicks! They Are Not.! What they are is Legitimate businesses. That is if you join a legitimate company.

Do not expect a check every 2 weeks. Do not expect to get paid if you do not work, unless you have created "Residual Income." Do not expect to have a Million Dollar business selling to your friends and family. Do not expect that everyone will think you're product is the answer to their problems. Do expect people to go the other way when they see you coming, so they do not have to listen to your sales pitch.

Get The Point? It's not the MLM, It's You! You decided to start a business without thinking about it as a business. What? You knew it was a business and still don't understand why these these are happening to you? You don't understand why you are not making any money? In a word, Marketing. How are you marketing your business? Is your sponsor making money? If they are have them teach you how they built they're business. Nothing is better than having a
Mentor. A mentor that will explain to you how to find people interested in finding your product or service. A mentor that will show you the best way to market your problems. After all, they are making money, right? What if your sponsor is not making money? What if your sponsor is in the same boat as you?

Judging by the number of disgruntled MLM'ers. I would venture a guess to say that a number of sponsors have no idea on how to run a Network Marketing or Direct Sales Online Business. What do you do?

You learn marketing! You learn to "Enjoy The Ride." You own your own business now. Decide to enjoy doing what it takes to grow it to be successful. I study. I read blogs, articles, books and I listen to podcast. Why? Because things change. I no longer do business the same way I did in the 80's. Now I use the Internet. You have a business, you need to keep abreast of current marketing techniques. Want to know what I have learned. No, put your credit card away!

What I have done is I have either written, or I have found articles that pertain to what has helped me build my Online Business. These articles are and will run the gamut of what you need to do to run a successful Online Business. One Day, I plan to put it all in an ebook and charge you for it. But till then, I am storing this information in one of my blogs.

That blog is the Internet Surfer Marketer, The I.S.M . It's purpose is to help people that I sponsor run a successful Online Business by putting all this information in one place. If they don't make money, I don't make money so a good part of my time is mentoring others in our business line. You're welcome to the blog for now.

Concluding, MLM's work if you market them. Building a Business from the ground up takes time, and knowledge. If you do not know marketing, you need to learn. Avail yourself of "Free Information" like The Internet Surfer Marketer before it becomes a commercial site selling my ebooks, videos and CDs. If you decided that you do want to join an MLM with multiple product lines and, with a sponsor who has already teaching how to make money online, then fill out this FORM and learn more about my business.